Coming Tragedy: The DoubleDown Witness

by metatron 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  For many of us, being a fake publisher is probably a healthy way to avoid confrontation with a family-wrecking cult.

  However, a different adaptation may lead some to disaster:

  The Double Down Witness

  As some of you may know, "doubling-down" is a gambling strategy in which you keep doubling the bet until you win.

  That "until" part can make you bankrupt, if you can't keep up with the losses until you score a huge win.

  Some Witnesses keep doing more and more. They dutifully follow all the shunning advice of the Society. They

  sacrifice year after year. They focus their minds away from the ever growing mountain of evidence that the Watchtower

  is a pious fraud. They blind their eyes and shield their hearts against the observable cold-heartedness of a leadership

  that can do no wrong.

  They're the "double down" Witnesses who will suffer the crash, when the Watchtower finally is exposed for what it is.

  We're doing them a service by exposing the organization piece by piece and day by day. "Doubling Down" is a way

  to wreck yourself, financially or spiritually.

  metatron
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  Elsewhere

  I'm at 18... Hit me again!!!
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  Winston Smith :>D

  ?One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we?ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We?re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge ? even to ourselves- that we?ve been so credulous. So the bamboozles persist as the new bamboozles arise.?

  ~ Carl Sagan

  It's too bad for these ?Double Down? JW?s that when they go bankrupt, the drink girl will stop coming around and they will get thrown out into the real world on their ass. It?s gonna be a rude awakening to these JW?s that put their entire life savings and the mortgage payment onto the green velvet thinking that they had ?21?.
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  Winston Smith :>D

  I'm at 18... Hit me again!!!

  Remind me Else to never let you sit on my right hand side at the table in Vegas. You're the guy that's going to get 'my card' with hits like that
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  xjw_b12

  Metatron That was a very interesting analogy.

  They're the "double down" Witnesses who will suffer the crash, when the Watchtower finally is exposed for what it is.

  And that is why we need to be there for them. "Broken and Penniless" as it were.

  Lurkers. The table is closed to you. You are out of chips and out of credit. Walk away from from the table ( WTBTS ) Only here, you're debts are erased.
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  willyloman

  That was pretty much me. I finally reached the limit and had to walk. It's funny, you know, I don't mind losing it all.
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  Undecided

  ?One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we?ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We?re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge ? even to ourselves- that we?ve been so credulous. So the bamboozles persist as the new bamboozles arise.?

  This is so true. My daughter's father-in-law was scammed by the Nigerians and won't accept it. He keeps sending them money, now over 3 million $s.

  His brother had to buy his house and his wife's dads house at auction so they wouldn't be put out on the street, he had borrowed money every way possible to send it to them. My daughter and husband almost lost their house because of helping his dad borrow money, he told them it was for the business he was running.

  His brother is rich and is recovering the business, only if he has nothing to do with it and gives it over to his son, my daughters husband. Things look better for them now

  Ken P..
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  willyloman

  bttt... because metatron has come up with a brilliant analogy that deserves wider circulation.